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by jamesjyu 7y ago
The major thing I struggled with transitioning to being a writer from the tech world is the challenge of creating feedback cycles. Writing can be a lonely affair, since outside of writing rooms, it's not naturally collaborative, unlike
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by jamesjyu 7y ago
Try using the Transit app which consolidates all the scooters and bikes together, that way you can still opportunistically ride a scoot.
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by jamesjyu 7y ago
In a recent newsletter from Robin Sloan (sci-fi writer), he shares what he's heard from a few engineers that work in China: "The Chinese government is building an OS and, in the not-too-distant future, the world will be split: tho
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by jamesjyu 7y ago
Nit: the avg person in the US spends 27 minutes per day on Facebook. This is small compared to TV/Netflix/YouTube, which is upwards of 4 hours per day. This is why Facebook had a huge push into video—they wanted a slice of that pi
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by jamesjyu 7y ago
This also happened to London during industrialization (London Smog), and they were able to clean it up afterwards. The hope is that China can do the same—there's been significant progress in recent years.
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The world's first genderless AI voice(fastcompany.com)
11 points by jamesjyu 8y ago|0 comments
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by jamesjyu 8y ago
The good startups use this formula as a shorthand to communicate an idea quickly, but don't religiously pin their real strategy on this. Once you dive in one layer deep, these analogies break down pretty quickly.
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The case of the 500-mile email(ibiblio.org)
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by jamesjyu 8y ago
It's similar to discovering a new code library that you admire and want to learn more about. You'd dive into the code, analyze it, pick it apart, try to understand the intent of the author and how you could learn from it to improv
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Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company(medium.com)
2101 points by jamesjyu 8y ago|353 comments
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by jamesjyu 8y ago
The tradition of "mock meats" in Buddhist culture is one of the oldest. I've found some of their veggie meats to taste really close to real meats, and they tackle things like fish and tuna, which hasn't been addressed mu
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River Rising: a story about execution by social media(motherboard.vice.com)
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Ask HN: Favorite fiction books of 2018
54 points by jamesjyu 8y ago|1 comments
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by jamesjyu 8y ago
Cixin Liu (of Three Body Problem fame) has a new novel called Ball Lightning that talks about this exactly. Not a great book in terms of character development or plot, but is chock full of intriguing military + technology scenarios. Worth a
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by jamesjyu 8y ago
One problem with traditional fiction narratives is its dependency hell. Think your code is bad? A single word in a novel could have dependency on any arbitrary set of other words. Let's say you need to change a character's inner f
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by jamesjyu 8y ago
I agree: with any new format, it's super hard for the story to stand out because the format itself becomes the story. So you get this sort of chicken and egg problem, because if there's not enough stories to drive a particular for
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by jamesjyu 8y ago
This is an important question. I read an article (can't find it now) about museums tackling this problem for their digital born art. The idea is to encapsulate the binaries that run the art in some way that is human readable, or at lea
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by jamesjyu 8y ago
Added! Funny enough, I had heard of Homestuck, but never actually read it.
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Hyperliterature(jamesyu.org)
160 points by jamesjyu 8y ago|56 comments
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Exactly. You need process knowledge in addition to IP in order to make innovation and manufacturing happen. And China is really good at cultivating process knowledge, something the US is slowly ceding to them.
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by jamesjyu 8y ago
My first internship was at a company that was doing this over a decade ago, but before machine learning had proliferated to adjacent fields. It's easy to separate out stationary signals like ambient noise, which are easily isolated in
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by jamesjyu 8y ago
It's easy to fall into the trap of seeking scale, because we're surrounded by it: best selling authors, viral content, etc. But I'd rather have a small number of readers who really appreciate my writing versus a large number
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by jamesjyu 8y ago
A famous one in Chinese is The Lion-Eating Poet in a Stone Den, which has all characters sounding out as "shi": http://www.fa-kuan.muc.de/SHISHI.RXML This is somewhat cheating since not all the "shi" are
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by jamesjyu 8y ago
Ekiben are amazing. They are delicious, efficient, and compact. One big difference between these bento boxes and the typical grab n' go foods we see here in the US is that they provide such a diverse set of foods—meat, rice, veggies, f
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by jamesjyu 8y ago
Ah yes, I don't think those features made it, but I never found that to be the killer feature anyway. Perhaps someone can remake those, now that Gmail has a proper marketplace for add-ons.
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by jamesjyu 8y ago
I recently switched back to Gmail from Inbox (before this announcement) and was pleasantly surprised that most of the features from Inbox were there. I barely had to change my workflow.
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by jamesjyu 8y ago
When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time improvising on the piano. I had been taking classical music lessons for years, but always loved to play around on the piano, composing little pieces for myself—mostly they were pop inspired
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Hot Spot: Interactive fiction that emulates synesthesia(jamesyu.org)
10 points by jamesjyu 8y ago|1 comments
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by jamesjyu 9y ago
What particularly do you find Patreon lacking?
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by jamesjyu 9y ago
From what I've read and seen of Miyazaki, he is pretty blunt person irrespective of cultural norms. I think a lot of successful, deep creatives are like this.

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